Allow me to disagree. Some older cookbooks in the former USSR contained references to '����' (pronounced as [foont]). Yet, as far as I recall, it would equal to 409 g. I believe that these references were part of the transition from the revolutionary (1917) times. But I remember a cookbook that my grandmother used, which was published in the 1950s, and still contained pound recipes.
Cheers, Nikolay -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Wizard of OS Sent: Sunday, 25 August 2002 10.38 To: U.S. Metric Association Subject: [USMA:21916] Re: question ----- Original Message ----- From: "kilopascal" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "U.S. Metric Association" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, August 25, 2002 6:16 PM Subject: [USMA:21915] Re: question <snip> this is wrong, e.g. in Germany only old people use pound! in former USSR a pound has never existed! <snip>
